Jennifer Whitty
New Zealand based, Irish designer Jennifer Whitty’s creative research practice advances the relationship between clothing and wearer through interrogation and integration of traditional clothing approaches and emerging technologies. Her work envisions sustainable links between fashion design as a material and cultural object enabling a deeper, more complex engagement with our garments.
Jennifer’s work ‘Free flow’ is currently part of the international traveling group exhibition YIELD (N.Z, New York, Finland) which is heralded as the first comprehensive survey of zero-waste designers in the world.
In her quest to uncover new more flexible and versatile ways of thinking about fashion Jennifer has sought to gain broad experience in the field of fashion design as a practioner, educator and researcher. Jennifer worked in the fashion centers of London, Paris and New York for designers Sharon Wauchob, John Rocha, D.K.N.Y. She received her Masters from the Royal College of Art, London and was the winner of the Onward Kashiyama New Designer Grand Prix Competition, Tokyo in 2005. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Italy, Ireland, U.K, Japan, Greece, and N.Z. Jennifer held a lecturing post in Ireland, and was a visiting lecturer in Estonia and Denmark. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, Wellington, N.Z

